The torch dropped about ten feet deep and reached the bottom. There was no water under the well, but a dry stone platform.
Not only was there no well water, but there were also no bones left behind by the corpses dumped all over the place.
"Why isn't there even a corpse?"
"It shouldn't be."
Fatty Li and the old Taoist priest looked at the situation underground and said in surprise at the same time.
rustle--
rustle--
In the claustrophobic and quiet space, bursts of rubbing sounds suddenly came from the sand. Listen carefully and you can see that they are coming from underground. Fatty Li and the old Taoist priest held their breaths at the same time.
There's something down there!
With the help of the dim light from the torch, they noticed that the wall at the bottom of the well was not sealed, and there was always a dark wind blowing.
call!
A gust of wind suddenly blew from the bottom of the well, and the torches were suddenly extinguished, causing the well to plunge into darkness.
"Why did the torch go out!"
"Something seemed to flash by under the well!"
The two people exclaimed and reacted quickly by throwing a torch again, but there was nothing under the well, not even the torch they had thrown down before. It disappeared.
Hiss!
"That's so fast. Little brother, did you see clearly what flashed by just now?" The old Taoist priest turned to ask Jin An.
Jin An frowned: "It's human hands."
manpower?
Could it be that the dead who were dumped here were nourished by Yin Qi underground and faked their corpses?
Or is it the female corpse in the coffin that has been wandering down the well for the first seven times?
Afterwards, Jin An took the lead to go down the well. He wanted to see where the ruins of the former dynasty, which extended in all directions, would eventually lead.
The second one was the old dog that looked like a human.
Even though the old dog usually only eats and sleeps and farts, he was able to dig graves and pick up bones in Gui Mo Mountain. He was also an extraordinary character.
The old dog jumped several times on the wall of the well, and finally landed on its limbs, which were as steady as an old dog.
Fatty Li is also a good martial artist, and he easily went down into the well with the old Taoist priest on his back: "Master Chen, what did you eat tonight? It's so heavy to carry?"
"Don't look at Daozhang Chen, you look quite thin, and you also have a lot of stuff in your belly."
The old Taoist priest who was afraid of heights had just landed and was about to take a deep breath to relax. Suddenly his face changed drastically and he tightly covered his mouth and nose with his Taoist robe: "The smell of blood and putrefaction down here is so strong that it almost knocked me unconscious on the spot."
past!"
The old Taoist priest held his breath nervously and no longer dared to take a big breath.
The space under the well is very spacious and can accommodate about twenty people. There are seven statues of gods erected on the walls of the well, and there is a bronze altar in front of each statue.
The altar was covered with a thick layer of dust, the incense burner was covered with cobwebs, and the candlesticks holding the incense candles were knocked over or rolled to the ground. These details gave people a sense of desolation that no one had been here to clean and worship for a long time.
The bronze statue has a dragon head and a human body. The seven statues have different expressions of joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear and surprise.
Being stared at by so many strange expressions at close range made the atmosphere here become even more eerie and eerie.
On the chest of each dragon-headed statue, there is a hole the size of a pair of fists. Behind the hole, it is so dark that nothing can be seen.
However, under the light of the torch, I saw a lot of blood stains scattered near the hole in the chest of the statue. The blood stains were old and new, and the blood stains were very thick. I even saw some pieces of flesh foam, some of which had been dried and had been there for an unknown number of years.
The dark wind under the well is blown out from the holes in the chests of these statues.
Seeing the blood stains and fleshy fragments on the surface of the statues, the old Taoist priest exclaimed: "Little brother, are the human hands you just saw protruding from the big holes in the chests of these statues?"
Hearing this, Fatty Li and Lao Gou subconsciously moved away from the bronze statue and stood in the middle of the well. Fatty Li frowned: "Master Chen, you mean that the dead who were thrown into the well were all killed by the hands stretched out from behind the statue.
Was it torn into pieces and eaten?"
Fatty Li looked around at the seven statues of gods under the well: "There are seven statues of dragon-headed gods here, and there are at least seven human-eating things hidden under the well!"
At this time, Jin An patted the old dog's head: "I, the Five Zang Taoist Temple, do not raise idlers, so the rest will be up to you."
"Help me find the statue with the latest bloody smell."
The old dog circled around the bottom of the well several times, then bared its teeth at one of the statues and lowered its body in an attacking posture.
Jin An touched the dog's head and came to the bronze statue. When he looked at the hole in the statue's chest, in the dark world behind the statue's chest, a cold, numb, blue eyeball like a ghost's eye was also lying behind the hole.
He was watching them coldly.
"sneaking."
Jin An pointed out that it was like lightning, blood spattered, and he broke the eyeball behind the hole of the statue with one finger.
A hoarse and low human roar of pain resounded, the statue shook violently, the chains on the well wall trembled, and a large amount of dust fell. Listening to this movement, it sounded like something behind the statue was hitting the statue in pain.
When Jin An withdrew his fingers, he saw an eyeball between his index and middle fingers, which was dripping with blood.
The old Taoist priest, Fatty Li, and the old dog felt chills on their backs and subconsciously raised their hands to cover their eyes.
It is strange to say that after the eyeball left the body, it could still move back and forth and was not dead. However, the eyeball had been pierced by Jin An's fingertips, and even if he wanted to see, he could not see anything.
Perhaps because he was blind and could not see the outside situation, the movement behind the statue soon stopped and fell into dead silence.
sulfuric acid!
Shang Fu's tiger-faced sword was unsheathed, and he chopped the bronze statue of a dragon-headed human figure in front of him with one strike, with great force.
boom!
There were violent ripples in the void, creating violent air currents, as if someone had broken through the Qimen Dunjia barrier here.
There was nothing behind the statue except for blood dripping on the ground.
Jin An sheathed his sword, holding his eyeball in his hand, and stalked into the secret passage behind the statue.
Several people and a dog quickly caught up.
Following the blood stains on the ground, Jin An came to a huge stone platform that looked like an altar. It was said to be like an altar because he saw a four-legged bronze square tripod on the huge stone platform.
The bronze square tripod has always been closely related to sacrifice, alchemy, and cooking.
Then he saw many human skeletons in the bronze square tripod. There were clear tooth marks on the surface of these bones. It seemed that the bronze square tripod was the feeding place of the monster behind the statue.
"It seems that someone deliberately fed man-eating monsters in the underground ruins of the capital." Jin An's voice was cold, with a trace of murderous intent leaking out.
The man-eating monster is not here. It seems to have intelligence. It must have noticed that Jin An was following the blood stains. The blood stains on the ground disappeared here.
But Jin'an has plenty of means to track him down.
This time he did not use the Taoist technique of detecting objects, but used Luo Geng's Jade Plate to track him, hoping that Luo Geng's Jade Plate could lead him to find the man-eating monster's lair and wipe out these monsters in one fell swoop.
As Jin An placed his eyes on Luo Geng's jade plate, the artifact quickly sensed it and led him deeper into the ruins, which were as large and complex as an underground palace and full of forks.
Along the way he met two more identical cannibals.
The stench became more and more unpleasant as we walked inside, as if there was a large corpse pit deep in the ruins of the previous dynasty, which was constantly emitting the stench of decay.
Soon, they came to a huge low-lying space, where they encountered a huge man-eating Fang Ding that was ten times larger than the man-eating Fang Ding they had seen before.
The ghostly atmosphere in the huge cannibal cooking cauldron and the stench of decay are constantly wafting out from here.
When they arrived here, they happened to see a crowd of people, kneeling on the ground and worshiping the giant man-eating cooking cauldron.
There were people kneeling in all directions.
It seemed as if some evil ritual was being performed.
However, the ceremony of these people was interrupted with the arrival of Jin An.
A pair of cold and numb eyes raised their eyes, flashing with a ghostly green light, staring directly at several large living people who suddenly appeared.
Jin An first raised his head to glance at the huge bronze square tripod, and then turned his gaze to the black and kneeling crowd in front of him: "What the hell are you? My divine consciousness can't detect your existence at all."
"No wonder you can hide under the capital and play tricks without being discovered."
The answer to Jin'an was that the bloodthirsty crowd rushed towards Jin'an madly.
"How can a mantis dare to block a car if he doesn't know whether to live or die?" Jin An snorted coldly.
He doesn't need to make any movements. He just takes a step, and behind him there is a wonderful scene of three days of radiance, red clouds covering the sky with Qi and blood. The martial arts, immortals and immortals have strong blood, and their Qi and blood are like an oven. Wherever they pass, all monsters, ghosts and snakes are suppressed.
I couldn't lift my head up and couldn't move an inch.
Peng!
Peng!
Peng!
One figure after another exploded, and each figure exploded and turned into a broken lead-mercury pill that fell to the ground.
A wisp of spirit emerged from the broken lead-mercury pill, trying to get back into the man-eating square cauldron. However, under the suppression of the Qi and blood of the martial arts immortal, Jin An did not need to take action at all, and all these spirits were in vain.
Self-explosion.
Avenue induction!
A thousand virtues!
A thousand virtues!
A thousand virtues!
…
"Lead and mercury pills?"
"What kind of demon is here refining the elixir to harm humans and demons!"
Jin An shouted coldly and walked towards the bronze square tripod step by step. Wherever he passed, there was not a single lead and mercury pill that could withstand the martial arts master Xianyang Nian and crush the attached spirit.
The pseudo-fourth realm martial arts immortals are indeed domineering.
He didn't take any action during the whole process, just relying on Qi and blood pressure control, he destroyed all the lead and mercury pills refined by these Shinto masters.
A thousand virtues is equivalent to the combat power of the second realm of Shinto. It is natural that he will be unable to resist a strong person who is in the pseudo-fourth realm.
This battle started suddenly and ended suddenly. He was so weak that before Jin An could take action, they all turned into fragments and were killed.
In just such a short time, he gained one hundred thousand Yin De.
Jin An came to the bronze square tripod as if he were in no man's land. He jumped up onto the bronze square tripod and saw the scene inside.
There is a Taoist priest sitting cross-legged in the bronze square tripod. The Taoist is refining lead and mercury pills in the bronze square tripod.
Just as Jin An jumped onto the bronze square tripod, he happened to see the other party successfully refining a lead-mercury pill. The Taoist raised his hand to grab two human eyes from the bronze square tripod and took the lead-mercury pill into it.
The lead-mercury elixir pill, which was originally a dead object, came to life in an instant like a finishing touch, transforming into a lifelike person, but this person looked extremely evil, like a ghost.
As soon as he saw Jin'an, the hungry ghost pounced on him.
He was killed by Jin'an's energy and blood without any suspense.
"Fellow Taoist, do you and I have any grudges..." Before the man in the tripod could finish his words, Jin An slapped his head to pieces.
This is another lead and mercury pill!
Avenue induction!
A hundred thousand virtues!
Equivalent to the third realm of Shinto cultivation!
The attachments of the original god and the three realms of lead and mercury pills are not surprising. Jin An himself is a master at using the lead and mercury holy embryo.
What surprised him was that this lead-mercury elixir pill could help its owner refine the lead-mercury elixir pill by himself, and it could also avoid detection by his spiritual consciousness and become invisible.
Jin An picked up the broken lead and mercury pills, lowered his head and thought to himself, it seems that all this is related to the special materials used in the lead and mercury pills.
Jin An glanced at the bronze square tripod at his feet.
There are many human eyes left in the cauldron, full of resentment. They should be leftovers from some past sacrificial activities.
Eyes are things that hide spirits, which is why the bronze square tripod is favored by evil people.
Naturally, Jin An would not keep such an evil thing that was harmful to people. He destroyed it on the spot and gained another hundred thousand Yin De.
A total of 300,000 Yin De was obtained before and after.
Jin An did not stop exploring the second floor of the former dynasty's ruins. He placed the fragments of lead and mercury pills and the fragments of the bronze square tripod one by one on the Luo Geng jade plate and tried to sense it. The Luo Geng jade plate was calm, and it seemed that the remaining evil spirits had been wiped out for the time being.
The second floor of the ruins of the previous dynasty was very large. Jin An explored it for half an hour. Seeing that no new clues were found and no other evil spirits gathered, he planned to return to the ground to hunt for the murderer.
The person hiding underground and playing tricks is Lead Mercury Danwan. The culprit behind the scenes may still be out there.
There were no other twists and turns on the original route back to the ground. During the return, he directly destroyed the seven-star giant coffin and the Dragon Locking Well that had harmed the people, cutting off the source of the disaster.
"Fat Li, give me that embroidered shoe." Once he returned to the ground, Jin An did not waste any time and continued to chase the murderer non-stop.
Luo Geng's jade plate once again played a great role and quickly traced the first murder scene of the owner of the embroidered shoes.
"Tiangong Miao Pavilion?"
"Fat Li, do you know who is behind this rouge shop?"
The carriage stopped in front of a rouge shop in Spice Shop. Jin An lifted the curtains and looked at the Luo Geng jade plate held in his hand.
Impartially, pointing right at the rouge shop in front of me.
Seeing Tiangong Miao Pavilion, Fatty Li's expression changed and he did not dare to hide anything. He answered truthfully: "Tiangong Miao Pavilion is very popular among the upper class circles of the capital. Whether it is for making Shidai, rouge or makeup powder, it has been published
There are many excellent products. 'Skin as creamy, white as beautiful jade' used to be used to describe a woman's beauty. Now many people use it to describe Tiangong Miaoge's rouge makeup powder, praising its ability to preserve the face and its magical ability to rejuvenate."
"The shopkeeper behind Tiangong Miao Pavilion was Su Susu, the oiran in the capital seven years ago, the first prostitute. Su Susu's ancestors were also from a famous family, but later their family fell into decline. Although she joined a brothel to survive, she did not sell herself as an artist. Because she was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting,
He is quite famous among the officials in the capital."
"Seven years ago, Su Susu won the title of Oiran. On the same day, she was redeemed by a mysterious man. Not long after, she became the manager of Tiangong Miao Pavilion. Tiangong Miao Pavilion's reputation quickly spread among the celebrities in the capital. Even many noble concubines in the palace were admired.
Su Susu, I only buy the rouge makeup powder from Tiangong Miaoge."
"The outside world has been speculating about the identity of the mysterious sponsor behind Tiangong Miao Pavilion. In fact, the real sponsor of Tiangong Miao Pavilion is an academician of the Taiyuan Hospital today, with an official rank of fifth rank."
"To put it bluntly, Su Susu is just a famous prostitute. The royal concubines in the palace buy the rouge and makeup from Tiangong Miao Pavilion because they are interested in the academicians of the Taiyuan Hospital, and behind the academicians of the Taiyuan Hospital is the entire Taiyuan Hospital. How can a courtesan who has fallen into the world of mortals be able to become a concubine?
Their eyes are just a reason to hide from others."
No wonder Fatty Li's expression changed just now.
If the academician of the Taiyuan Hospital was involved in a murder case, both killing people and dumping corpses, the involvement was too big, and even pulling out carrots and bringing them out of the mud would involve many interests in the harem, Emperor Kangzhao's harem would be on fire.